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Wrote about online slop, pulling ourselves back from “viral” and “trending” content, and defeating Mr. Beast. Link: www.jphilll.com/p/we-have-to...

Wrote about online slop, pulling ourselves back from “viral” and “trending” content, and defeating Mr. Beast. Link: www.jphilll.com/p/we-have-to...

out of some random curiosity last night I looked up how many days have passed since I bounced out of my old life and started over again in new york and, yikes.

As honest as I can get: Gavin's platform hijacking stuff is very good; redistricting is excellent. But the podcast/transphobia stuff is obviously designed to get attacked from the left to impress "the middle" because HE THINKS IT HELPS HIS AMBITION. It's our job to prove he's wrong about that.

This would like Congress deciding they get to pick Supreme Court justices

No he didn't. That isn't true. www.nytimes.com/2025/08/27/m...

Many of us are still able to whine in public without fear of immediate reprisals. Many of us still have local power over our communities that is likely to be contested in somewhat fair elections. And we all have more power to communicate & connect—despite the billionaires—than any humans before us.

This knocked me on my tuchus. "I always have this feeling that those of us who’ve been very unsafe as children, we seek out the unsafe. We seek out the lack of security, and if you have security, you blow it up."

Anyone know what Ben Wikler is up to these days? How is he not running something?

We're ready to accept you're surrender, and your refusal to surrender is an absolute betrayal of our generosity.

All I know is we need the numbers and the way to persuade persuadable Republicans is to bring in numbers so large that they can't resist resisting.

Also in the Times today: an article about a violence prevention program in MN that was cut by the Trump WH designed to prevent the kind of attack that happened last week: www.nytimes.com/2025/08/30/u...

What will matter is what Fox News says, because that's where the MAGA 6 bake their brains.

"If you’re struggling with the day-to-day whirlwind, take a step back and pick what you want to see in America when Trump is gone, something bigger than just a personal fight against him."

the perfect dating-app picture doesn't exi—

NYT: www.nytimes.com/2025/08/31/s...

cool ad about Juicy Couture turning 30

The weather where i live this month has been great. I think i've only had my AC two or three days in August.

 "We stand here in the wealthiest city, in the wealthiest country, in the history of the world, as we stand here by Wall Street, where last year. They had more than $40 billion in bonuses. We ask ourselves, how is it that one in four New Yorkers are still living in poverty?"

Still stunned how Trump humiliated himself and the country—and the press couldn't manage 1% of the accuracy or outrage that occurred after his Helsinki flop, which wasn't nearly as consequential.

I think a lot about the fascists who enrage me the most, and it's because they "present as normal." Ernst, Vance, and even Hawley. At first glance, you think that can't be a raging monster. No one benefits more from that than Bobby Jr., who has laundered Mengelism into the CDC using his dad's face.

" Secretary Kennedy is endangering the health of the American people now and into the future. Secretary Kennedy must resign."

" Our freedom is only as good as our ability to exercise it."

Never will get why Democrats—who should understand privilege!—so often use their first thought that frames their entire message, and the only line most people read, to spread Republican lies.

Why does Trump treat Putin with the respect and dignity he denies pretty much every other human on earth? We don't have to guess! We just have to peel away the bullshit he used to get us to this point.

I'm a sucker for Vladimir Putin. -Donald Trump

Mark Zuckerberg lobbied Donald Trump to challenge digital services taxes, just days before he threatened countries around the world with tariffs if they continued taxing and regulating US tech companies.

donald trump might get some short-term wins out of his trade war and aggressive foreign policy, but in the long-term he’s accelerating the decline of the US empire

At some point we need to talk about how a ton of progressives came out of the pandemic not as anti-vaxxers, but still mistrusting the science behind vaccines.

“an ad hoc, centralized approach” “a departure from previous administrations” sure is a lot of words for “authoritarian bullshit”

confusion there with Idaho-Washington State, signaling a fair catch while a free kick is in the air but catching it after it's touched the ground is NOT a fair catch, but the ball is dead anyway. in college football, the distinction is meaningless, but in the NFL it isn't (bc fair catch kick)

“The law doesn’t explicitly give the president permission to sexually assault children.” @nytpitchbot.bsky.social you ready?

gotta be up in six hours to go on a bike right, nite kiddos

Perhaps most stimulating paper I've read this year explores the economic consequences of attention being scarce, rivalrous, cognitive, and volitional. Reading it while listening to the Tony Rice Unit and drinking a lovely Jester King beer gets rather meta as my attention splits among them.

Cool and enlightening website:

Vance was born in 1984. What did Orwell know?

Creatives sometimes say, "But I like to use AI to inspire me." But I just spent an hour looking at art by humans on ArtStation (you can filter out AI art in searches), and I am feeling way more inspired than I ever did after writing a prompt into MidJourney. cdnb.artstation.com/p/assets/ima...

The livestock guardian dog (who is a very good boy) is uncertain whether me coming out onto the patio for a cigarette is a danger to the flock

A Florida State – Alabama – Florida State house divided / polyamory pride flag

Not sure Gavin Newsom leaning into the Q thing—even as mockery—is a good idea, tbh:

there’s left politics, and then there’s the form of left politics that takes on certain right-wing elements to become appealing and profitable in a right-wing (social) media landscape

once again I am begging every football coach to employ a 13 year old Madden obsessive to manage the clock for them

This is my most specific flex ever

says a lot about the supposed democracy index that the united states ranked higher than canada before trump returned to power despite its shambles of a democratic system where corruption is legal and political parties openly draw the districts so they win. canada isn’t perfect, but come on.

hey I was thinking what if we outsourced our economy, health care system, world standing and just about anything else you can think of to a malevolent, addled dementia patient on death's door, that would be fun right

so Cal has a quarterback, huh these are some shockingly great throws for a true freshman

sometimes the connections that make sense in my brain aren't really all that comprehensible to anyone else. But as a person who has been through some stuff, I will absolutely stand by the statement "sometimes the race car bed is what you got."

This Dodger team sleepwalks through series against bad teams and whips the good teams’ butts. It’s v odd!

drippy as fuck

SECN never fixed the bottom line

At @dconscitrack.bsky.social watching @tkingfisher.com talk about how weird birds are

I have been rewatching 30 Rock, which remains well-crafted with some bits that really didn't age well, but my main takeaway is, jesus christ the 00s were a long fuckin time ago

the fly pattern was open; let's go peay

hmm

Sometimes I think about the fact that my last happy memory before the pandemic was when that emergency backup goalie won the game for the Carolina Hurricanes

she doesn’t post on here (thus proving she’s smarter than I am) but a very happy birthday to my beautiful, brilliant wife marrying her is the best decision I ever made and expect I ever will make and I am thankful every day I get to spend my life with her

The images on X out of Gaza today have been horrific.

Saturday indoor soccer update - played against a new team to the league, so coupled with the heat things got a bit spicy. Seven total yellows and probably about thirty fouls. We won 5-2, I had some key defensive stops.

I do wonder about this

It’s hard to assess why this cacophony of conjecture snowballed, given that Trump has resembled a bloated corpse for most of a decade. And the only explanations can be 1) someone knows something, or 2) people really need this.

I WILL FUCKING DESTROY YOU IF YOU DON'T NOMINATE ME FOR THE NOBEL PEACE PRIZE

oh my god the dumb NASCAR race is going to overtime and our Pac-12 Game of the Week is gonna start on NewsNation

as a lifelong hater of all things New York sports, Linsanity was one of the coolest things that’s happened in the NBA in my lifetime I love that he retires with the ring Melo never got

Aw man. The Dodgers announced that press box security guard James Mims has passed away. He was in his 45th year working for the team and was a kind and decent man. A press box legend. Farewell, friend. 💔

Crisis averted! The owner finally answered. This was a ten year old boy who got out of his house! They didnt even realize! All is well and I am going to delete these in a few minutes. Thanks to everyone who gave us ideas. Be careful with your babies!

hello to everyone else who had no idea how you were supposed to pronounce “foyer” or “hors d'oeuvres” to the point that you heard both of them in real life and didn’t connect them to the words you read in books for years

I think the SEC on ESPN score box is bad, no matter how fancy it looks.

We are in Long Beach, NY and this sweet dog just came up to us. No leash, no nearby person. We have it on my dog's leash and have called the cops. Also tried the number on its collar many, many times. No luck. Any advice? Anyone know this dog?

personally I think that we shouldn’t sacrifice American kids ability to learn without distraction-boxes on the same altar to Mammon that we’ve decided to sacrifice their ability to not have to worry about being shot in the face in school

this is literally what the “minor children should be allowed to have their phones during school” proponents are defending and like, come on somehow I survived only being to use the internet at home and the school computer lab in 2005

this is literally what the “minor children should be allowed to have their phones during school” proponents are defending and like, come on somehow I survived only being to use the internet at home and the school computer lab in 2005

barry season 3 was one of the best seasons of television i have ever seen in my life. holy shit. crush on bill hader leveled up to hapless admiration

barry season 3 was one of the best seasons of television i have ever seen in my life. holy shit. crush on bill hader leveled up to hapless admiration

i endorse this proposal! some canadian provinces have already started the school phone bans. it took effect in mine at the start of the year.

all American schools should ban phone use during class hours, but we CAN compromise by bringing back Internet-connected computer labs where the nerd kids can retreat to look at fanfic during lunch

taylor is well and truly off the deep end, and can’t seem to stop herself from digging even further

If y’all have anything to give, my friend @quiara.net is disabled, nonbinary, and living in the Deep South - trying to raise funds to get out and go live somewhere safe. Any help you can give would be greatly appreciated.

it is so profoundly weird, yet in character, that she’s decided to die on the hill of “not letting kids scroll TikTok brain rot in math class”

it is so profoundly weird, yet in character, that she’s decided to die on the hill of “not letting kids scroll TikTok brain rot in math class”

Listening to the “On The Day It Finally Happens” song this weekend, for some reason: youtu.be/41NOMETNp3U?...

Listening to the “On The Day It Finally Happens” song this weekend, for some reason: youtu.be/41NOMETNp3U?...

one thing seinfeld never showed, to my memory, is the gang dodging thousands of impossibly young columbia students on the sidewalk moving into their dorms

one thing seinfeld never showed, to my memory, is the gang dodging thousands of impossibly young columbia students on the sidewalk moving into their dorms

the Reddit dog grooming sub is full of amazing content

the Reddit dog grooming sub is full of amazing content

I am fervently against censoring the internet myself but I really do not think that stopping actual children from watching YouTube Let’s Plays in school has much to do with that one way or another

I am fervently against censoring the internet myself but I really do not think that stopping actual children from watching YouTube Let’s Plays in school has much to do with that one way or another

it is so profoundly weird, yet in character, that she’s decided to die on the hill of “not letting kids scroll TikTok brain rot in math class”

it is so profoundly weird, yet in character, that she’s decided to die on the hill of “not letting kids scroll TikTok brain rot in math class”

Listening to the “On The Day It Finally Happens” song this weekend, for some reason: youtu.be/41NOMETNp3U?...

Listening to the “On The Day It Finally Happens” song this weekend, for some reason: youtu.be/41NOMETNp3U?...

one thing seinfeld never showed, to my memory, is the gang dodging thousands of impossibly young columbia students on the sidewalk moving into their dorms

one thing seinfeld never showed, to my memory, is the gang dodging thousands of impossibly young columbia students on the sidewalk moving into their dorms

the Reddit dog grooming sub is full of amazing content

the Reddit dog grooming sub is full of amazing content

Halfway through “Machines that Think” by Pamela McCorduck, a history of AI, and it’s delightful and very informative. She’s a charming writer who gathered a ton of original source material and interviews. The full PDF is available here from Monoskop: monoskop.org/images/1/1e/...

sorry, I did not mean to suggest there is anything wrong with tacos for dinner! it's just a fast, tasty meal that I never remember to cook and I do not even know why that is, because I could have tacos for dinner EVERY NIGHT if I wanted.

Dudes rock

Lack of access to lightweight explosives seems to be THE barrier to drone terrorism outside of active war zones. ipso facto, if you’re worried about drone terrorism, you should be channeling as many resources as possible into *explosives control*.